The legislature has acted and the bills have been passed into law. This achievement reflects the persistence of every person who understood that acknowledging a historic debt is essential for our collective future. I am grateful for your dedication to this cause and look forward to seeing how these measures …
May 29, 2020
Support Reparations: Restore, Renew & Reconcile the Black Community & strengthen Illinois
Final supporters
On February 19th, we moved one step closer to realizing Reparations for the State of Illinois when Dr. Willie Wilson traveled to Springfield, IL and accompanied State Representative Will Davis into the house chambers to introduce Reparations Bill HB5024 & HB5025. The bill is now poised to go through the passing process to become law. Dr. Wilson originated and sponsored this historic bill. Visit https://youtu.be/0GQ0hC-vvDU to view the historic video.
Over 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for reparations. Today, Dr. Wilson is battling to finish the fight for African Americans and has pushed the envelope one step closer. This is today’s movement. Let’s show them what a movement can do!
STAND UP for this bill. CONTACT your alderman, state legislators and your local and state representatives. Tell them to do their jobs. Represent your interests and support HB 5024/HB 5025. We can't do this without the grassroots support of people like you. It’s left up to us.
Reparations is a debt owed and promised to African enslaved survivors and their descendants.
Many know reparations as receiving “40 acres and a mule”, which is America’s promise to the trafficked, enslaved African people and their descendants. This is payment for the 400 years of slavery, free labor and barbaric conditions that African people endured. It is an opportunity for America to demonstrate its remorse and pay its debt for this ugly sin. As of today, these reparations have never been paid.
Indians, Japanese, Jewish, Israelis and other ethnic groups have all received trillions of dollars in reparations for crimes against their humanity that has served as a bedrock to reset or start a better life for their people. African enslaved people were emancipated with nothing to begin a life. This trickled down to their descendants and has negatively impacted African American generation after generation. The enslaved African people and their descendants are the ONLY group of people that have yet to receive restitution for the criminal injustices perpetrated against them. NO sin was bigger or lasted longer.
There is a reparations movement happening today to right these wrongs. This petition is one of those tools.
Reparations, today, for descendants of African enslaved people looks much different than "40 acres and a mule". The needs of the community are different and have seemingly been forever ignored and neglected. It is an opportunity to repair damages the descendants of African enslaved people have suffered and continue to suffer from. Old injustices don't simply disappear with time. Left unaddressed, these brutalities continue wrecking psychological havoc and emotional destruction in the African American community in a most catastrophic way.
The new Reparations Bill presents the infrastructure that will help ‘level the playing field’ so that the African American community can experience the same opportunity (as has all other ethnics groups) to live a prosperous life.
Over 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for reparations. Today, Dr. Wilson is battling to finish the fight for African Americans and has pushed the envelope one step closer. This is today’s movement. Let’s show them what a movement can do!
STAND UP for this bill. CONTACT your alderman, state legislators and your local and state representatives. Click here for aldermen. Click here for state representatives. Tell them to do their jobs. Represent your interests and support HB 5024/HB 5025. We can't do this without the grassroots support of people like you. It’s left up to us.
PLEDGE: Today, I stand with DR. WILLIE WILSON and the countless others in supporting this Reparations effort. We refuse to let this empty promise go on any longer. I am asking you to do your job, represent my interests and support Reparations Bill HB 5024/HB 5025 for the generations before us, for the generations of today and for the generations to come. Reparations is a duty of moral and material restitution. It is not a paycheck but restoration, renewal and reconciliation. The stakes have never been higher. Click here to read the full Reparations Bill.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
March 28, 2020
March 27, 2020
The momentum behind this effort reflects a growing commitment to addressing long-standing historical injustices. As we approach five hundred signatures, this milestone provides the necessary foundation for our upcoming discussions with legislators. Please invite others to join this movement so we can demonstrate the true breadth of our collective resolve.
February 14, 2020
Seeing this progress gain such steady momentum reminds me that the conversation around long overdue justice is shifting in a profound way. It is heartening to see so many individuals engaging with these bills as we work toward a genuine reckoning with our shared history.
Reached 100 supporters
February 10, 2020
February 9, 2020
Reaching our first hundred signatures represents a foundational step toward the serious legislative work required for these bills. Please consider how you might bring this conversation into your own circles to help us maintain this vital momentum.
234 Comments
I feel as a black man my people have been forced to suffer inhuman things for tens to hundreds of years & even us as grandchildren of slavery have to sit & watch roots in school. That’s reliving suffering of our ancestors
I am strongly in favor of Reparations for Black people in these United States of America who are the descendants of slaves. Much of the wealth of this country and many of its corporations are direct proceeds from the labors of African-American slaves.
The Jewish community ,The Japanese community has received repairmen for undue harsh treatment. The African American community is long overdue for the extreme harsh treatment of Slavery, Jim Crow ,Abuse and unfair and unequitable treatment,
jim crow, systematic exclusion, and NO Justice under the white law which to this day defines our 400 years in this land. How can we not seek retribution ?
It's time for America to pay up, We know it won't be 40 acres and a mule, but other monetary compensation. Like affordable housing, healthcare, restorative justice, education, etc.
Semper Fi
Yes yes yes!!!
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The legislature has acted and the bills have been passed into law. This achievement reflects the persistence of every person who understood that acknowledging a historic debt is essential for our collective future. I am grateful for your dedication to this cause and look forward to seeing how these measures …
May 29, 2020
Support Reparations: Restore, Renew & Reconcile the Black Community & strengthen Illinois
Final supporters
On February 19th, we moved one step closer to realizing Reparations for the State of Illinois when Dr. Willie Wilson traveled to Springfield, IL and accompanied State Representative Will Davis into the house chambers to introduce Reparations Bill HB5024 & HB5025. The bill is now poised to go through the passing process to become law. Dr. Wilson originated and sponsored this historic bill. Visit https://youtu.be/0GQ0hC-vvDU to view the historic video.
Over 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for reparations. Today, Dr. Wilson is battling to finish the fight for African Americans and has pushed the envelope one step closer. This is today’s movement. Let’s show them what a movement can do!
STAND UP for this bill. CONTACT your alderman, state legislators and your local and state representatives. Tell them to do their jobs. Represent your interests and support HB 5024/HB 5025. We can't do this without the grassroots support of people like you. It’s left up to us.
Reparations is a debt owed and promised to African enslaved survivors and their descendants.
Many know reparations as receiving “40 acres and a mule”, which is America’s promise to the trafficked, enslaved African people and their descendants. This is payment for the 400 years of slavery, free labor and barbaric conditions that African people endured. It is an opportunity for America to demonstrate its remorse and pay its debt for this ugly sin. As of today, these reparations have never been paid.
Indians, Japanese, Jewish, Israelis and other ethnic groups have all received trillions of dollars in reparations for crimes against their humanity that has served as a bedrock to reset or start a better life for their people. African enslaved people were emancipated with nothing to begin a life. This trickled down to their descendants and has negatively impacted African American generation after generation. The enslaved African people and their descendants are the ONLY group of people that have yet to receive restitution for the criminal injustices perpetrated against them. NO sin was bigger or lasted longer.
There is a reparations movement happening today to right these wrongs. This petition is one of those tools.
Reparations, today, for descendants of African enslaved people looks much different than "40 acres and a mule". The needs of the community are different and have seemingly been forever ignored and neglected. It is an opportunity to repair damages the descendants of African enslaved people have suffered and continue to suffer from. Old injustices don't simply disappear with time. Left unaddressed, these brutalities continue wrecking psychological havoc and emotional destruction in the African American community in a most catastrophic way.
The new Reparations Bill presents the infrastructure that will help ‘level the playing field’ so that the African American community can experience the same opportunity (as has all other ethnics groups) to live a prosperous life.
Over 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for reparations. Today, Dr. Wilson is battling to finish the fight for African Americans and has pushed the envelope one step closer. This is today’s movement. Let’s show them what a movement can do!
STAND UP for this bill. CONTACT your alderman, state legislators and your local and state representatives. Click here for aldermen. Click here for state representatives. Tell them to do their jobs. Represent your interests and support HB 5024/HB 5025. We can't do this without the grassroots support of people like you. It’s left up to us.
PLEDGE: Today, I stand with DR. WILLIE WILSON and the countless others in supporting this Reparations effort. We refuse to let this empty promise go on any longer. I am asking you to do your job, represent my interests and support Reparations Bill HB 5024/HB 5025 for the generations before us, for the generations of today and for the generations to come. Reparations is a duty of moral and material restitution. It is not a paycheck but restoration, renewal and reconciliation. The stakes have never been higher. Click here to read the full Reparations Bill.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
March 28, 2020
March 27, 2020
The momentum behind this effort reflects a growing commitment to addressing long-standing historical injustices. As we approach five hundred signatures, this milestone provides the necessary foundation for our upcoming discussions with legislators. Please invite others to join this movement so we can demonstrate the true breadth of our collective resolve.
February 14, 2020
Seeing this progress gain such steady momentum reminds me that the conversation around long overdue justice is shifting in a profound way. It is heartening to see so many individuals engaging with these bills as we work toward a genuine reckoning with our shared history.
Reached 100 supporters
February 10, 2020
February 9, 2020
Reaching our first hundred signatures represents a foundational step toward the serious legislative work required for these bills. Please consider how you might bring this conversation into your own circles to help us maintain this vital momentum.
234 Comments
I support HB 5024/HB 5025. It's time for us to get what we should have gotten long ago. It's time for equity, equality and parity for African-American descendants of slaves.
I feel as a black man my people have been forced to suffer inhuman things for tens to hundreds of years & even us as grandchildren of slavery have to sit & watch roots in school. That’s reliving suffering of our ancestors
I am strongly in favor of Reparations for Black people in these United States of America who are the descendants of slaves. Much of the wealth of this country and many of its corporations are direct proceeds from the labors of African-American slaves.
The Jewish community ,The Japanese community has received repairmen for undue harsh treatment. The African American community is long overdue for the extreme harsh treatment of Slavery, Jim Crow ,Abuse and unfair and unequitable treatment,
jim crow, systematic exclusion, and NO Justice under the white law which to this day defines our 400 years in this land. How can we not seek retribution ?
It's time for America to pay up, We know it won't be 40 acres and a mule, but other monetary compensation. Like affordable housing, healthcare, restorative justice, education, etc.
Semper Fi
Yes yes yes!!!
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I support HB 5024/HB 5025. It's time for us to get what we should have gotten long ago. It's time for equity, equality and parity for African-American descendants of slaves.